{"id":43887,"date":"2021-06-07T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43887"},"modified":"2025-08-31T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:27:18","slug":"donald-trump-bitcoin-looks-like-a-scam-competing-with-the-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/donald-trump-bitcoin-looks-like-a-scam-competing-with-the-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: Bitcoin Looks Like a Scam Competing with the Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. president Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox Business, said that the first cryptocurrency &#8216;looks like a scam&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cxs47ojhmf\">https:\/\/t.co\/cxs47ojhmf<\/a>, [07.06.21 09:41]<\/p>\n<p>JUST IN \u2014 Trump: &#8220;Bitcoin seems like a scam, competing against the dollar. I don\\&#8217;t like it.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@disclosetv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ehWtYJb1U2\">pic.twitter.com\/ehWtYJb1U2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2022\u0118\u0141M\u0114\u0156 F\u0172\u0110\u0110\u2022 \u26a1\ufe0f\u271d\ufe0f\ud83c\udfba\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u26a1\ufe0f (@BlaiseP59407586) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlaiseP59407586\/status\/1401897170182324233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI don\\&#8217;t like it [Bitcoin], because it\\&#8217;s another currency competing with the dollar. [\u2026] I want the dollar to become a global currency. That\\&#8217;s what I have always said,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2019, Trump first spoke about Bitcoin and Libra (now <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/libra-association-renamed-to-diem-association\">Diem<\/a>). In his view, their value is extremely volatile and largely unbacked.<\/p>\n<p>Later, former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton wrote in his memoirs that Trump had expressed his aversion to digital gold as early as May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/donald-trumps-tweets-go-on-sale-as-nfts\">46,694 tweets by the former president<\/a> were put up for auction as non-fungible tokens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox Business, said that the first cryptocurrency &#8216;looks like a scam&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,991,1138],"class_list":["post-43887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-donald-trump","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43889,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43887\/revisions\/43889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}